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So, you have decided to become a fully qualified nurse, and you want to be the best at your chosen career.  You have been thinking about nursing for a while.  It is also possible that you have been nursing for a while now and want to excel in your career.  Your nurse training taught you that a nursing career can be an exciting energy fueled endeavor.  But the question is how did this idea develop in your brain?  I bet when you sit down and think about it, you are not sure when, where why or how you were motivated to do so.  Today in 2000's nursing is not for the faint hearted. 

The idea may have come to you via a documentary you once watched on TV about the National Health Service (NHS), you may have visited a relative in a hospital, or a vision came to you in a blinding flash because you were worried about the next move you were going to make in your life. You may have moved from your native country as a trained nurse and decided to continue your career path to give your time, experience and knowledge to patients who could benefit from your help. You may have felt working as a nurse or a carer in either a hospital or a care home facility would be a worthwhile job. 

Your children are growing up and getting to an age where a second income would be helpful to your family with the ever-increasing expenses of living today.  It's also possible that while in the last throws of your schooling you may have very quickly come to realised that you needed to decide on whether to become the manager of your local Asda, study for a nursing diploma/degree or a teaching degree.  For me nursing became the most appealing, although there are many similarities in both jobs.

Experiencing your nurse training at university and the knowledge gained via clinical placements you have decided nursing is for you. 

So, you have qualified and then straight into the first year of your nursing career you quickly realise that it has took over your life.  Being a qualified nurse and being a carer, your working days are many long learning hours. It can also feel like a thankless task, and it often felt that there was and still is a lack of recognition for your hard work. For many nurses and carers who work in hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, out in the community or in other specialized care facilities the tasks are endless. 

However, if you are ambitious there is a glass ceiling which develops its own array of tangible, visible and audible traits which maintains as an unequal opportunity for advancements. 

Becoming aware of this aspect of nursing can often cause a lot of internal stress, a crisis of confidence and a lowering of your self-esteem.  Happiness through self-care is a vital tool to have in your survival kit for nursing.  Therefore, working in the care industry can leave one feeling unfulfilled career-wise.  There is often a limited amount of support for the development of a quality work-life balance especially because of the intensity of night and day shift patterns.  Nursing has more than its fair share of frustrations and let downs. There are, however, things that you can do to learn to change how you feel about ensuring longevity of your career in the hopes of staving off disillusionment and burnout.  The physical status of your body as you age and the psychological management of the mental status of your mind is what allows you to control your life 24/7.  Learn how to overcome anxiety.

How would you like to develop bullet proof motivation and learn to think seriously about taking better control of your life and career?  Also, learn techniques that can help you take care of your own positivity and your physical well-being which may help you to tolerate your working environment which can be deemed as quite toxic in today's nursing world.   In days gone by nursing was said to be a vocation.  A calling, a bit like been a nun.  But what is a vocation and why is nursing no longer seen in this manner?

There are many professional nursing organizations and online communities and educational institutions that cater for black nurses such as The Black Nurses Association UK.   Websites on the internet. They tend to give an air of diversity and inclusion which are in direct alinement with nursing commitments, UpToDate training opportunities, education on procedures and information about new research and new medications. 

Nursing is heavily influenced by people who are not nurses like the laymen, the public,  politicians, the mainstream media,  government department policy makers and lawyers' legal standings and stake holders.  All this information is available for you to Perouse on the world wide web.  It is ofter deemed straight forward giving you knowledge about how they expect you to keep yourself revalidated up to date with any government policies and procedures that will affect your pay grade, education, accountabilities and ability to do your job.  All that information is vital of course but may add to your anxiety about certain aspects of your nursing career that you have no control over.